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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana
Jusélius, Katarina; Reshid, Adbulaziz; Tarp, Finn - 2013
A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128334
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A replication of "The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries : insights from multivariate time series analysis" (Oxford Bulletin of Statistics and Economics, 2014)
Roger, Lionel - 2019
Macroeconomic data have been shown to vary substantially between sources, especially so for low-income countries. While the impact of data revisions on inference is well documented for cross-country studies, there is no systematic analysis of the robustness of results obtained from time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990915
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A replication of "The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: insights from multivariate time series analysis" (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014)
Roger, Lionel - 2019
Macroeconomic data have been shown to vary substantially between sources, especially so for low-income countries. While the impact of data revisions on inference is well documented for cross-country studies, there is no systematic analysis of the robustness of results obtained from time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139181
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Tracking under-reported financial flows: China's development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520608
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Mostly harmless? A subnational analysis of the aid-conflict nexus
van Weezel, Stijn - 2017
Although most aid projects are aimed at local development, most research on the aid-conflict nexus is based on the … country-year as unit of analysis. In contrast, this study examines the link between aid commitments and conflict intensity at … local aid allocations. The data shows that in general the spatial interdependence between aid and conflict is low, as aid is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928049
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Mostly harmless? : a subnational analysis of the aid-conflict nexus
Weezel, Stijn van - 2017
Although most aid projects are aimed at local development, most research on the aid-conflict nexus is based on the … country-year as unit of analysis. In contrast, this study examines the link between aid commitments and conflict intensity at … local aid allocations. The data shows that in general the spatial interdependence between aid and conflict is low, as aid is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774698
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Foreign aid and local conflict dynamics : a monthly grid-cell-level analysis in Africa
Bitzer, Jürgen; Dannemann, Bernhard Christopher; … - 2025 - This Version: May 2025
This study investigates the relationship between foreign aid and conflict incidence at the sub-national level across …-referenced World Bank aid data with conflict event data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project, we construct a … study methodologies, we estimate the immediate and dynamic effects of foreign aid allocation on local conflict. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015405067
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Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916960
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Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920431